This is where I got my start many years ago. Written by the great Jennell Jaquays.
D&D 5E Please suggest me some books about DM advices
Bayushi_seikuro
Hero
I was just going to recommend this, and/or listening to Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff. They have various good episodes that can help with GMing. Both are solid game designers - I was also surprised to just now see about Ken being involved in a shooting. He's okay - and I laughed a bit too much when he said all of his years working on GURPS made it easy for him to identify the gun with which he was shot.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Yeah it's kind of wild, because it's a fairly kill-y OSR game by default (though the full edition includes rules that can easily change that), but the DM advice is extremely good and extremely chill in a way I've literally in an OSR game. Definitely would second it.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Robin D Laws also wrote one of the best and more succinct DM advice sourcebooks ever written - Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering - Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering - and his RPGs consistently had excellent DM advice, which even as a teenager I was able to appreciate (Feng Shui for example).
It's funny because it really departs from the typical "you're not their friend, players are your enemy and you should make life as difficult as possible for them and always be using random tables" vibe I get from most OSR stuff
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Kevin Crawford just seems really amazingly on-the-ball about this. The first product I really saw from him was Black Streams, which was a system you could use to "buff" a single PC from an OSR/old-school game so they could solo an adventure if you didn't have the time/desire to get a whole group together. And in that he noted that if you really wanted, you could have two or more PCs like this and whilst it would be overpowered, it would be it's own kind of fun. And he's done a lot of these OSR-ish games at very different power levels, from "easily stabbed peasant" to almost Exalted-ish.
I think to even think like that you already have to have broken out of the mindlessly adversarial approach a lot of early OSR stuff specified. And it's notable that the resolution systems he's designed expect a good-faith approach from both players and DM, rather than an adversarial or competitive one.
WWN is particularly nice because the full edition essentially does what D&D 5E kind of threatened to do but ultimately didn't, and provides real tools for modulating the kind of campaign you want - especially with the further tools in Atlas. With both books you can go from utterly meatgrinder low/no magic play to PCs literally starting as Legates and Heroic characters, where they're more on part with again almost an Exalted character (albeit a Dragonblooded rather than a Solar), and a wide variety of settings in-between.
On top of that he's shown a real talent for solving longstanding D&D issues, a lot of which D&D and D&D-likes/relatives don't even tend to acknowledge - the stand-out one for me is what WWN calls "Execution Attacks", which are one-hit from-stealth kills or KOs, and implemented in a way that's both balanced and achieves the objective of getting that into the game.
(I will say WWN does sometimes share a flaw with D&D 5E that not ever modular system is super-clearly called out, there are a couple that - as with 5E - are inside the text of paragraphs - it seems like the nice call-out textboxes of the '90s are almost a forgotten art!)
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
One of the best worldbuilding guides ever: A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe. It is very comprehensive, so prepare for a firehose of data and numbers to the face, but there's nothing else like it out there for creating a faux medieval Europe that feels like it works. They also have other books in the series which I'm told are quite good as well.
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